On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jay Patel <rockworl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > May i know how can i use Skype in OpenBSD 5.1 and 64 bit dell inspiron > 15R ? current wm is e17 and gnome along side. if its possible to use > skype protocol or something using pidgin or empathy. > > Thanks, > > Jay.
This http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2616&highlight=Skype was the state of art couple of years ago when I played the last time with it. I think they removed the screen shoot of me running Skype on OpenBSD 4.4. I have never been able to get audio to work properly even with Skype 1.2 OSS with static libraries. I was able to hear the greeting and the splash but not to have conversation. There has been some recent commits in compat_linux recently by Paul Irofti. I would talk to him before waist my time with Skype. For the record compat_linux was dying 2-3 years ago before Paul got interested. Then he made some quick progress and gave a conference talk where he mentioned possibility of Skype, Opera (latest version), and even MATLAB working. Then the progress stall due to the work on rthreads which you will see in 5.2 release. I have no idea what are his plans. If somebody wants to work on compat_linux probably now is the time to do. To be frank with you I would be the most interested in MATLAB of the three but even updating FreeMAT port to current release 4.1 (our version is 4.0) is non-trivial. I am guessing that it would have to be a paid job... VoIP on OpenBSD works great as long as you use SIP protocol. I use pjsua client for the record and iptel proxy server. http://serweb.iptel.org/user/ Ekiga proxy server also works fine with pjsua but if you must use Skype then that is not conforting. Best, Predrag P.S. Has anybody played with Google Talk?
